As a matter of fact. As it closes it is closing lower, dragged down by renewed weakness today in the big tech stocks. Also energy was weak. So all of that, we will have in detail for you. The dow down about 400 points. Welcome to the show, everybody, im connell mcshane. Melissa wow. That was quite a press conference there. Im Melissa Francis and this is after the bell. The dow and the s p 500 closing down more than 1 after the biggest rally in at least two months. The tech selloff pushing the nasdaq deeper into the red after its largest gain since april. We have a lot of news to get to today. Fox Business Team coverage to cover it. Lauren simonetti following the markets. Blake burman is live at the white house. Hillary vaughn has latest on covid relief package. Kick it off with you, blake where all the action is now. Reporter we saw President Trump here as the closing bell hit and the topic again was tapes and conversations that the president had, 18 conversations, nine hours worth wit
Report from the region is next apple trying to lift the curtain on new gadgets a new phone not likely will anybody care . This is Worldwide Exchange on tuesday, september 15. A nice segment of music coming up later in the program by the way, good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you may be watching good to have you back with us. Global markets are stepping up this day solidly in the green the major average back yesterday after the s p 500 posted its worst week since june and the nasdaq the best week since march. The nasdaq back above 11,000 but still about 1,000 points away from that high of september 2. Small but mighty do not forget about the small cap stocks the russell 2000 posting the best day since july 15 small caps have been outperforming. Dont forget about the bond market either. The federal resofr and a new inflation framework in place talk of lower rates stronger the continuing note is stuck there for months around the world, a mixed session in asia overnigh
Nation. Just coming in, images of the sunset you and i observed last night. Imagineom, you cannot the change across this america. Forget about economics, finance, and investment. It looks like man delorean out there, lisa. Lisa really depressing to watch that orange sky over in the west and seeing the smoke come toward us. It is a political smoke, as well. Everything becomes that much more political in this year of 2020 as we head toward november. Tom jon, you nailed it on the United Kingdom earlier in the fictitious nature of our Unemployment Rate and the fed meeting tomorrow. I am going to summarize the backdrop, double digit unemployment. Jonathan unemployment and the u. K. Just north of 4 officially. It Means Nothing to anybody me living in the u. K. Right now. There is a Furlough Program tying a lot of people to the government, and that expires at the end of next month. A huge conversation on whether it. Xtend if it does not get extended, unemployment will go much higher very quic
Some traction. Right right. Well, look, i think that the charges that leader mccarthy made which basically are saying that Speaker Pelosi just doesnt want to deal actually are in somewhat synch with what Jared Kushner was saying because that maybe there cant be a deal until after the election how about the next three months . We just decide theres been no ppp for september, october, november, i dont know whether thats sacrificing the american working person for the election or maybe someone actually thinks the economy is coming back david, you know that we are hearing persistent stories that because vaccines are all going to be ready its time to start thinking about a fedex which reports tonight, its time to start thinking about a Union Pacific i have on and time to start thinking about pretty much every industrial like caterpillar, deere its happening although lets i mean, vaccines you know, i dont even know how to parse that exactly, jim vaccines being ready when we actually talk to
China is doing better than good. We get a nice lift. To your point, i cannot remember a fed meeting where i have been more distracted by other news. Jonathan because the other news matters more. At the moment, the Federal Reserve is basically done when it comes to the framework shift. We have seen that. When it comes to the Balance Sheet, we have seen a huge expansion. Butink there will be tweaks for many people, the most important catalyst is physical. Tom it is physical based on week demand. I can or where i saw this. I will give axios credit. It was a food bank in richmond, automobile, car, by and it looked like field of dreams the line of cars went off into the distance and it was shockingly sad how people were lined up to get food, having that much difficulty. Jonathan could not agree with you more. Were living in two worlds. The old world is struggling. Love the we see our place, particularly in the airline business. Airbus talking about the prospect of more than still to come. T